people's liberation army naval air force

In recent years, more of the PLA three-letter designation system has become widely shown, especially in the regards of the missiles. So I thought it would be best to list them out. Format X/YZZ(or could be YYY)N(numbers). Forces modifier (typically omitted) K/ (Air Force) L/ (Army) H/ (Navy)...

Let's suppose for whatever reason China doesn't manage to get Varyag. My preferred TL is for it to somehow get under russian control, eventually refurbished and serving alongside Kuznetsov. With that out of the way, wonder what will be the options/development path for the chinese carrier...

Parade training base outside of Beijing

Rather than aircraft carriers I think it is US nuclear submarines that pose the main threat to Chinese seapower, so I was interested in this article: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/china-improving-its-anti-submarine-warfare-capabilities-197071 The Western powers have been in the ASW...

Is anyone aware of any projects by China to create a VTOL aircraft to operate off of their helicopter carriers?

For the 1960s/1970s fighter project, see here. https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news-detail/planaf-j-11bh-fighter-seen-using-potentially-new-ecm-pod

From; Авиаколлекция 2010 № 8. Штурмовик Q-5 (A-5)

From Air Force 2001/1, here is a Guizhou JL-9 (FTC-2000) Adnaced Jet Trainer supersonic aircraft,clearly based on F-7.

Several images have surfaced (of which this is one) from Shanghai CSSC shipyard. Images show what appears to be a large module of a possible aircraft carrier. Said shipyard was rumored to have started building China's next carrier, first Catobar one, since a few years ago.

Hi, here is a Chinese amphibian flying boat aircraft,the AVIC TA-600 or AG600. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVIC_TA-600

Published on Aug 7, 2015 2015 People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN or Chinese Navy) official recruitment video. The video shows a large part of the vessels, planes and equipment currently deployed in China's PLAN inventory. https://youtu.be/c-yGcCq1H5Y

Model of Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) consortium Blue Whale Tilt Rotor project on display at the Tianjin International Helicopter Exposition on August 29 - September 1, 2013. The Blue Whale is one of many future rotor projects by the AVIC Helicopter Design Institute expected to appear by...

Not really much better but anyway a clear sign for "there is at least something out there" ! Deino

Is China building an Ulyanovsk-class (Project 1153 OREL) aircraft carrier? Source: http://www.navyrecognition.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=691

Not 100% sure but with a MAD-boom, a weapons-bay and a large serach radar ... I would say that's the long rumoured Y-8GX-6 ASW. Deino

The Shenyang 601 Institute has been working for some years now on what might be a competition for Chengdu's J-20. Here's a handful of pics( sorry, can't remember the site, I think it was a Pakistani defence forum) of a model strongly resembling the blurred windtunnel model from Huitong's site...

Just "found" at XAC ... not sure if a Y-7-derivate or a completely new type, but anyway most likely something new from China again. Deino China naval AEW (most likely) spotted

http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=5489543&c=SEA&s=ASI So, seem within a few months the Varyag will be sailing under its own power. How long til the J-15 reaches production?

Hi, here is a drawing to Hongdu L-15 single seat light attack version appeared in the January 2008 issue of the Chinese magazine Shipborne Weapons. http://www.strategycenter.net/research/pubID.193/pub_detail.asp